The Law of Attraction?

1/18/2010

It has been said that no matter how bad things are they'll be worse if you're poor. This is not to say that money is everything. It's not. Still money allows us to access resources and and solutions,it allows us to hire experts and specialists: problem solving capacity we would not otherwise have access to. Beyond that the stress associated with not being able to, or struggling constantly to just pay the bills that are due takes a toll on individuals and relationships that can be debilitating in time. It should be obvious that there is an ocean of money out there. Why are some able to swim in that ocean seemingly at will while others are continually blocked from that same reward? In my family the Law of Attraction, popularized by books such as The Secret are currently very popular. While I am a proponent of positive thinking and believe in general ways in the Law of Attraction I am skeptical that this is the whole story and tend to see it as a simplification. Part of the answer but not the whole story! Gurucharan (see gurucharan.com) believes that The Secret is an unbalanced application of the Positive Mind, and gives Bernie Madoff as an example of the unbalanced Positive Mind. He states we must plant a seed with the aid of The Neutral Mind and recommends that as the path. He is probably right. For my part The Secret entirely leaves out a discussion of the subconscious. Sorry folks we're not entirely aware of everything we think, believe or want. It also leaves out any role for karma and the legacy of the past which must be dealt with at some point